Weekly summary (week ending)

4th
- falls in excess of 50 mm were recorded across southern Queensland11th -
falls in excess of 25 mm were fairly localised, most widely in southeast Queensland and on the northern border18th
- falls in excess of 25 mm were mostly recorded in southeast
Queensland, with isolated areas exceeding 25 mm as far north as Cairns25th
- most of the rain fell at the start of the week bringing heavy rain to
far north Queensland (falls in excess of 100 mm were recorded between
Ingham and Cooktown, with most of the Cairns region recording more than
200 mm during the week) - falls of between 25 and 100 mm were also recorded in the Cape York Peninsula region - the highest Australian weekly rainfall total was 773 mm at Babinda

Rainfall

The Queensland area averaged rainfall was 29.63 mm.

The wettest overall was Bellenden Ker Top with 1494.0 mm, then Babinda Post Office with 837.0 mm, followed by Menavale Alert with 659.0 mm.

The wettest single day was at Bellenden Ker Top station with 440.0 mm on the 19th, followed by Bellenden Ker Bottom station with 340.0 mm on the 19th, then Babinda Post Office with 312.0 mm also on the 19th.

Minimum temperature

The Queensland area averaged minimum temperature (see notes section)
was 0.36 °C above the long-term average of 17.3 °C (1961-1990).

The coldest night was at Oakey Aero with -0.7 °C on the 2nd, followed by Applethorpe with 0.3 °C on the 4th, followed by Kingaroy Airport with 0.8 °C on the 2nd, followed by Stanthorpe Leslie Parade with 0.8 °C on the 4th.

The coolest nights on average were at Applethorpe with 8.7 °C, followed by Stanthorpe Leslie Parade with 9.0 °C, followed by Warwick with 9.9 °C.

The warmest nights on average were at Sweers Island with 25.1 °C, followed by Coconut Island with 24.8 °C, followed by Mornington Island with 24.7 °C.

The warmest night was at Horn Island with 27.4 °C on the 19th, followed by Sweers Island with 27.2 °C on the 27th, followed by Horn Island with 27.1 °C on the 18th, followed by Sweers Island with 27.1 °C on the 30th, followed by Croydon Township with 27.1 °C on the 31st.

Notes

A Monthly Climate Summary is prepared to list the main features of
the weather in Queensland using the most timely and accurate
information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated. Later information, including data that has had greater opportunity for quality control, will be presented in the Monthly Weather Review, usually published in the fourth week of the month.

This statement has been prepared based on information available at
10 am on Tuesday 1 November 2011.
Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change
as new information becomes available.

Averages are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 9 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.

The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.

The temperature anomalies are the differences to the respective 1961-1990 averages.

Please
note that the rainfall data from telemetry gauges (those with ALERT, AL
or TM in their names) may be from non-Bureau owned stations and
includes real-time operational data from automated systems and has not
been checked.